AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient and AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Launch date	23 April 2018 vs 23 July 2013
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

2.9x more core clock speed: 875 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	875 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	883
PassMark - G3D Mark		263
PassMark - G2D Mark		173
Geekbench - OpenCL		869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		2.021
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		104.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		5.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		23.365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		672
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1078
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2093
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		672
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1078
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2093

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient	AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Raven	Caicos
Launch date	23 April 2018	23 July 2013
Place in performance rating	1540	1529
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	875 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	370 million
Floating-point performance		280.0 gflops
Pipelines		160
Texture fill rate		7 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3